Dentsply Sirona Inc., a manufacturer of professional dental products and technologies, is the latest company to move its headquarters to Charlotte. Dentsply Sirona (NASDAQ: XRAY) has a 25,000-square-foot office in the SPX Building in Ballantyne Corporate Park. "The move builds on Dentsply Sirona's reorganization plan to centralize its sales and service infrastructure in Charlotte, to further simplify the organization and to enhance the company's clinical education capabilities and functionality at the Dentsply Sirona Charlotte Academy," a press release stated.

Ironically, he said that making it harder for regional banks to merge would “be a big favor” for the biggest banks, like Bank of America Corp., deepening the “moats” that protect them. On Thursday, Maxine Waters, the chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee, said in a statement at a hearing on financial institutions that “bank consolidation is accelerating as I previously warned it would,” with the BB&T and SunTrust tie-up potentially creating the country’s sixth-largest bank. “While thousands of banks have proposed to merge between 2006 and 2017, not a single bank merger application was formally rejected by the Federal Reserve,” Waters said.

Melanie DiVirgilio just enjoyed her most successful year of being employed by Winston Salem, North Carolina-based BB&T Corp. DiVirgilio — vice president/commercial banker of BB&T in Orlando — booked more than $30 million in loans, bringing in about $1 million in revenue for the bank (NYSE: BBT). DiVirgilio was chosen among the top Women to Watch in OBJ's 2019 Women Who Mean Business Awards.

While many Wall Street firms are looking for equities than can weather a short-term trade conflict, Bank of America has screened more stringently for a hardier group of stocks: ones that can survive a worst-case or "full-blown" trade war between the world's two economic superpowers.

New York, May 10, 2019 -- Moody's Investors Service ("Moody's") said today that the review for downgrade of BB&T Corporation's ratings (senior at A2) and the review for upgrade of SunTrust Banks, Inc.'s ratings (senior at Baa1) continues as their pending merger progresses.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., May 8, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- BB&T Corporation (BBT) today announced a $10 million social impact investment to the Impact Pool of the Washington Housing Initiative. The Bank's equity investment will be used to help address the scarcity of housing for middle-income individuals and families in the Washington D.C. metro region. The Washington Housing Initiative is a transformational, market-driven model that brings together capital from private and philanthropic sources to prevent displacement and preserve affordable workforce housing for people with income too high to qualify for housing subsidies, but who do not earn enough to afford Washington's soaring, market-rate home prices.

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BB&T Corp NYSE:BBTView full report here! Summary * Bearish sentiment is moderate and increasing * Economic output in this company's sector is expanding Bearish sentimentShort interest | NeutralShort interest is moderate for BBT with between 5 and 10% of shares outstanding currently on loan. This represents an increase in short interest as investors who seek to profit from falling equity prices added to their short positions on April 30. Money flowETF/Index ownership | NeutralETF activity is neutral. The net inflows of $4.80 billion over the last one-month into ETFs that hold BBT are not among the highest of the last year and have been slowing. Economic sentimentPMI by IHS Markit | PositiveAccording to the latest IHS Markit Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) data, output in the Financials sector is rising. The rate of growth is strong relative to the trend shown over the past year. Credit worthinessCredit default swapCDS data is not available for this security.Please send all inquiries related to the report to score@ihsmarkit.com.Charts and report PDFs will only be available for 30 days after publishing.This document has been produced for information purposes only and is not to be relied upon or as construed as investment advice. To the fullest extent permitted by law, IHS Markit disclaims any responsibility or liability, whether in contract, tort (including, without limitation, negligence), equity or otherwise, for any loss or damage arising from any reliance on or the use of this material in any way. Please view the full legal disclaimer and methodology information on pages 2-3 of the full report.